YAML
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for YAML skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited YAML over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 664 680 939
Rank change year-on-year +16 +259 -163
Permanent jobs citing YAML 227 324 303
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.32% 0.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.08% 1.06% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 136 176 220
10th Percentile £48,125 £43,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £62,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £69,447 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -0.79% +16.67%
75th Percentile £87,500 £84,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £92,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,576 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +8.58% -3.70% +22.73%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

YAML is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 21,097 30,626 64,106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.27% 30.16% 40.72%
Number of salaries quoted 15,763 18,846 30,127
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £62,750
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +7.57% +14.09%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

YAML
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing YAML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for YAML in the UK

YAML
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing YAML.

Salary trend for YAML in the UK

YAML
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing YAML over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for YAML in the UK

YAML
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing YAML within the UK over the 6 months to 8 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +2 203 £75,000 +8.00% 33
UK excluding London -59 151 £70,576 +8.58% 20
Work from Home +53 127 £77,500 +11.60% 18
London +87 70 £77,500 -0.32% 11
Midlands +3 37 £86,485 +57.25% 3
South West -6 34 £80,000 +15.20%
North of England -21 34 £67,500 +2.34% 5
West Midlands +13 29 £110,000 +100.00% 3
Yorkshire +27 23 £67,500 +8.00% 4
South East +17 23 £65,000 -23.53% 8
Scotland -65 11 £35,000 -49.60% 1
North West -4 10 - -
East Midlands -15 8 £57,500 +4.55%
Northern Ireland +27 5 - -
Wales +8 5 - -
East of England +12 2 £55,750 -34.41% 3
North East - 1 £70,000 - 1

YAML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 74 (32.60%) Apache
2 20 (8.81%) nginx
3 17 (7.49%) Apache Spark
3 17 (7.49%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.88%) Confluence
4 2 (0.88%) WordPress
5 1 (0.44%) IIS
5 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.44%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.44%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.44%) PTC Creo
2 1 (0.44%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.32%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 122 (53.74%) Azure
2 83 (36.56%) Amazon S3
3 71 (31.28%) Azure DevOps
4 35 (15.42%) PaaS
5 24 (10.57%) IaaS
6 21 (9.25%) OpenShift
7 19 (8.37%) AWS
7 19 (8.37%) Entra ID
8 18 (7.93%) Azure Service Bus
9 17 (7.49%) Azure API Management
9 17 (7.49%) MinIO
10 14 (6.17%) Microsoft 365
11 13 (5.73%) Azure AKS
12 11 (4.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 11 (4.85%) GCP
13 10 (4.41%) Azure Key Vault
13 10 (4.41%) GitHub
13 10 (4.41%) Serverless
14 9 (3.96%) Azure App Service
15 8 (3.52%) Azure Event Grid
Communications & Networking
1 81 (35.68%) VPN
2 78 (34.36%) Firewall
3 67 (29.52%) Internet
4 64 (28.19%) SNMP
5 54 (23.79%) IPsec
6 33 (14.54%) DNS
7 12 (5.29%) NGFW
8 11 (4.85%) BGP
8 11 (4.85%) Ethernet VPN
8 11 (4.85%) MPLS
8 11 (4.85%) TCP/IP
9 10 (4.41%) tcpdump
10 9 (3.96%) WAN
11 7 (3.08%) SD-WAN
12 5 (2.20%) Network Security
13 4 (1.76%) HTTP
14 3 (1.32%) SSL
15 2 (0.88%) LAN
15 2 (0.88%) Wireless
16 1 (0.44%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (33.04%) MongoDB
2 69 (30.40%) Elasticsearch
3 44 (19.38%) SQL Server
4 21 (9.25%) NoSQL
5 18 (7.93%) MySQL
6 17 (7.49%) Big Data
6 17 (7.49%) Hadoop
6 17 (7.49%) Presto
7 11 (4.85%) SQLite
8 8 (3.52%) Power BI
9 7 (3.08%) Azure SQL Database
9 7 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (2.64%) Relational Database
11 4 (1.76%) Data Lake
11 4 (1.76%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.76%) HDInsight
11 4 (1.76%) Looker
11 4 (1.76%) QlikView
11 4 (1.76%) Tableau
12 2 (0.88%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 41 (18.06%) Git
2 33 (14.54%) Jenkins
3 21 (9.25%) GitLab
4 18 (7.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 13 (5.73%) JIRA
6 11 (4.85%) Artifactory
7 7 (3.08%) Katalon Studio
7 7 (3.08%) Vagrant
8 2 (0.88%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.88%) Gradle
8 2 (0.88%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.44%) Chocolatey
9 1 (0.44%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.44%) Zephyr
General
1 76 (33.48%) Finance
2 50 (22.03%) Social Skills
3 25 (11.01%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (11.01%) Telecoms
4 16 (7.05%) Manufacturing
5 12 (5.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (3.96%) Influencing Skills
6 9 (3.96%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (3.52%) Marketing
8 7 (3.08%) Banking
8 7 (3.08%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (3.08%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (3.08%) Police
9 6 (2.64%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.76%) Electronics
11 3 (1.32%) German Language
11 3 (1.32%) Law
11 3 (1.32%) Retail
12 2 (0.88%) Automotive
12 2 (0.88%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 59 (25.99%) DevOps Engineer
2 54 (23.79%) Consultant
2 54 (23.79%) NetApp Consultant
3 38 (16.74%) Architect
3 38 (16.74%) Senior
4 33 (14.54%) Developer
5 30 (13.22%) Azure Engineer
6 17 (7.49%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 17 (7.49%) Big Data Engineer
6 17 (7.49%) Data Engineer
7 14 (6.17%) Citrix Architect
7 14 (6.17%) Lead
8 12 (5.29%) Cloud Architect
8 12 (5.29%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
8 12 (5.29%) DevOps Architect
8 12 (5.29%) Linux Engineer
8 12 (5.29%) Senior Developer
9 10 (4.41%) Lead DevOps
9 10 (4.41%) Lead DevOps Engineer
9 10 (4.41%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (31.72%) RabbitMQ
2 51 (22.47%) JSON
3 45 (19.82%) .NET
4 29 (12.78%) Elastic Stack
5 27 (11.89%) ARM Templates
5 27 (11.89%) XML
6 26 (11.45%) .NET Core
7 25 (11.01%) ASP.NET
7 25 (11.01%) HTML
8 24 (10.57%) Entity Framework
9 22 (9.69%) RESTful
10 21 (9.25%) .NET Framework
11 19 (8.37%) REST
12 18 (7.93%) React
13 17 (7.49%) ActiveMQ
13 17 (7.49%) Apache NiFi
13 17 (7.49%) Blazor
14 13 (5.73%) ASP.NET MVC
15 12 (5.29%) Node.js
16 11 (4.85%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 55 (24.23%) Data Centre
2 17 (7.49%) Hybrid Cloud
3 15 (6.61%) Public Cloud
4 12 (5.29%) Private Cloud
4 12 (5.29%) Product Ownership
5 10 (4.41%) Clustering
6 9 (3.96%) Cloud Native
7 7 (3.08%) Cloud Security Posture
7 7 (3.08%) Enterprise Cloud
7 7 (3.08%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.76%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.76%) Renewable Energy
9 3 (1.32%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.44%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.44%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.44%) Online Banking
11 1 (0.44%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 111 (48.90%) Linux
2 86 (37.89%) Windows
3 54 (23.79%) Data ONTAP
4 14 (6.17%) Windows Server
5 12 (5.29%) Unix
6 11 (4.85%) CentOS
7 4 (1.76%) VMS
8 3 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (1.32%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.88%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.44%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.44%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (63.44%) DevOps
2 98 (43.17%) Problem-Solving
3 95 (41.85%) CI/CD
4 92 (40.53%) Agile
5 84 (37.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 61 (26.87%) Containerisation
7 60 (26.43%) Project Management
8 56 (24.67%) Infrastructure Management
9 55 (24.23%) Storage Management
10 54 (23.79%) Actionable Insight
10 54 (23.79%) Project Planning
10 54 (23.79%) Release Management
11 47 (20.70%) Scrum
12 41 (18.06%) Continuous Improvement
13 28 (12.33%) Roadmaps
14 25 (11.01%) Microservices
15 23 (10.13%) Observability
16 22 (9.69%) Disaster Recovery
17 21 (9.25%) Data Engineering
17 21 (9.25%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 119 (52.42%) Python
2 70 (30.84%) PowerShell
3 61 (26.87%) SQL
4 56 (24.67%) C#
5 36 (15.86%) Bash
6 24 (10.57%) JavaScript
7 19 (8.37%) Shell Script
7 19 (8.37%) T-SQL
8 13 (5.73%) Bicep
9 11 (4.85%) Perl
9 11 (4.85%) PHP
9 11 (4.85%) XAML
10 4 (1.76%) Java
10 4 (1.76%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.76%) VB
11 3 (1.32%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.32%) Ruby
12 2 (0.88%) AWK
12 2 (0.88%) C++
12 2 (0.88%) Gremlin
Qualifications
1 23 (10.13%) Security Cleared
2 17 (7.49%) DV Cleared
3 8 (3.52%) Degree
4 5 (2.20%) SC Cleared
5 4 (1.76%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.88%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 2 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.44%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.44%) CISSP
7 1 (0.44%) MCSA
7 1 (0.44%) MCSE
7 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.64%) QA
2 4 (1.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 4 (1.76%) GDPR
System Software
1 117 (51.54%) Docker
2 67 (29.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (9.69%) VMware ESXi
4 16 (7.05%) Active Directory
5 13 (5.73%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (5.29%) vSphere
7 1 (0.44%) NFS
7 1 (0.44%) Time Sharing Option
7 1 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 120 (52.86%) Kubernetes
2 90 (39.65%) Ansible
3 85 (37.44%) Terraform
4 71 (31.28%) Prometheus
5 64 (28.19%) vCenter Server
6 31 (13.66%) Grafana
7 27 (11.89%) HAProxy
8 15 (6.61%) Puppet
9 10 (4.41%) Graphite
9 10 (4.41%) Nagios
10 7 (3.08%) Packer
11 5 (2.20%) Istio
12 4 (1.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (1.32%) Kibana
13 3 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
13 3 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
14 2 (0.88%) Docker Swarm
15 1 (0.44%) logstash
15 1 (0.44%) Progress Chef
15 1 (0.44%) Salt
Vendors
1 68 (29.96%) VMware
2 57 (25.11%) Red Hat
3 54 (23.79%) NetApp
3 54 (23.79%) Palo Alto
3 54 (23.79%) SolidFire
4 39 (17.18%) Microsoft
5 14 (6.17%) Citrix
6 13 (5.73%) Cisco
7 7 (3.08%) DevExpress
7 7 (3.08%) Oracle
8 6 (2.64%) Twitter
9 5 (2.20%) SAP
10 4 (1.76%) Databricks
11 3 (1.32%) Salesforce
11 3 (1.32%) Software AG
12 2 (0.88%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.88%) IBM
12 2 (0.88%) Meraki
12 2 (0.88%) webMethods
13 1 (0.44%) Broadcom